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Dahlan Iskan finally attends house commission hearing

State-owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan finally attended the House of Representatives Commission IX hearing ...

7.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Papua

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale jolted northeast of Tolikara, Papua on Saturday at 11.42 Western ...

Burglar steals Rp208 million in Public Housing Ministry

A burglar reportedly stole a cash of 208 million rupiah in the Public Housing Ministry building, located in Jalan ...

5.5 magnitude earthquake hits Papua

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted the southeastern part of Sarmi district, Papua province, on ...

Police find explosives during Depok house raid

Personnel from anti-terror police force and Jakarta police office found stocks of explosives while raiding a house in ...

President instructs police to investigate Depok explosion

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed police to investigate the explosion which injured and caused five ...

VP offers condolences to families of Fokker-27 crash victims

Vice President Boediono on behalf of himself and the government offered deep condolences to families of those killed ...

Indonesia mulling over single time zone

In October 1928, a group of young men from several islands together made a pledge they would be united under one ...

Kalla says plan to unify time zone wrong

Former vice president M Jusuf Kalla believes that the plan to merge Indonesia`s three existing time zones into a ...

Mount Marapi twice spews white smoke

Mount Marapi, located between the districts of Tanah Datar and Agam, West Sumatra province twice spewed white smoke on ...

Super moon not to bring disaster

The appearance of super moon with a bigger size and golden light on Saturday night should not be linked with a ...

round-up: huge quake again hits Aceh, no report of death

Only a couple of days after the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) or Aceh province held simultaneous regional head ...

Aceh major quake warns tsunami potential to five provinces

The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) released a tsunami warning to five provinces in ...

National police chief visits parliament building

The National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo visited the House of Representatives (DPR) building here on Friday ...

President Yudhoyono arrives in S. Korea

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mrs Ani Yudhoyono and entourage arrived in South Korea on Sunday afternoon. ...